Friday, July 29, 2016

The Rocky Coast of Maine...

We have been very busy having adventures for the last week. We arrived at Timberland Acres RV Park in Trenton, Maine last week. After a day of rest from our 5 hour drive from Littleton, Massachusetts and a day to do laundry and get Phaeth set up, request our mail get forwarded to us, a day to plan what we were going to do, we started out exploring in earnest.

Just south of the full camp ground is Bar Harbor, Maine and Acadia National Park. The sights and things to do and lobster to eat are more than plentiful. The natural wonders have blown us away so I took a few photos over the last 3 or 4 days, so here they are:

Day 1:

First stop was to the Acadia National Park center where we purchased our Senior Lifetime Pass. We can now visit all the National Parks, Monuments and Museums for the rest of our lives. It cost $10.00. By the way, we have to show our legal I.D. whenever we use the pass so those of you think showing an I.D. to vote is some how offensive, get over it. If it looks like this place is crowded, yes this part of Maine is very crowded this time of year because for about 8 months out of the year it is not easy to get here.

This is the crowd at the top of Cadillac Mountain. Finding parking is an opportunity to be patient.

The gift store at the top of the mountain was sold out of just about everything by noon.

This is the view down at sea level.

Going up Cadillac Mountain which is the highest peak on the East Coast of the North American Continent and should not be confused with Mount Mitchell in the North Carolina Mountains which happens to be the highest peak east of the Mississippi River and not on the coast.

Cadillac Mountain is just a bit more than 1,500 feet above the sea.

This is the town of Bar Harbor from Cadillac Mountain.

Looking northeastward at some of the islands that make up the archipelago of the Maine coast.

Cadillac Mountain is on an island called Mount Desert Island and gets it's name from French explorers. No, I did not misspell Desert. It is pronounced like the last course of the evening meal; you know, blueberry pie and vanilla ice cream.

The archipelago was formed by the retreating ice sheets during the last ice age.